My new favourite thing....

There have been a few challenges around lately where you colour a black and white image, and add a splash of colour. I really like the look and it seems to be an up and coming trend so I thought I would give it a go.

I thought it would be really hard to do, but it turns out that it's not half as bad as I thought, and it's really easy to match up your backing papers when you are just focussing on one colour.

So, I had a lovely time yesterday, colouring some black and white images, and here is my second attempt, using a gorgeous Teddy Bo stamp that came free with a magazine, a few months back.

So for this card I have focussed on Orange.....she looks a bit like a pumpkin!

The gorgeous papers are frmo the Milton range at Wild Rose Studio, and they are all backed up on to plain black card.

Here's a close up of the teddy.

I made this card to enter the following challenges:

Teddy Bo - Black and white with one other colour
Make it Monday
Bearly Mine - Anything Goes
The PaperShelter - Anything Goes

Well that's my last crafty offering for now. Sadly it's back to work after a lovely week off, so I'm pretty sure that my crafting 'me time' is going to be depleted now as I try to catch up with all the madness and mayhem at work.........oh to win the lottery and get out of the rat race!!!

Wishing you all a happy week ahead, and thanks for stopping by.

Sharon x

Monochrome with Unusual Coloured Hair

I have seen some great stuff in mags lately where images have been coloured in a monochrome colour with a focal point in a different colour. I was so impressed with the look, and really wanted to have a go myself, so this week's Promarker challenge of Monochrome with Unusual Coloured Hair was just the incentive I needed to get me started.

I thought my Sugar Nellie Manga Girl would be perfect for this look, plus there was a really nuce sketch on Sketch Saturday , which I thought would be just the job!

Here's a close up of the girl......

I have used some paper from the lovely NitWits Promises Too digi set for bakcing and punched the decorative strip suing a Martha Stewart punch.

A really simple card to put together....but I think that style works best for me!!

Here are the challenges that I am going to enter today.....

Passion for Promarkers - Monochrome with unusual coloured hair
Sketch Saturday
Bearly Mine - Anything Goes
Paper Shelter - Anything Goes

Thanks for stopping by today!

Sharon xx

I wanna be a good 'colourer inner'!

I love how Leanne Chivers always talks about being a good 'colourer inner'......I think it's such a great name for that thing that we love to do!

Anyway...I spend so much time admiring other people's colouring and wish I was as good as they are.....I guess the only way to improve is practice, practice and more practice!

Since I was on holiday this week, I was able to devote a bit of extra time to colouring and here is what I came up with, using a lovelt Saturated Canary digi.

I often look at these in my digi stamp folder, but think I will never be able to do them justice. That said, they take a bit of time to colour, but are really not as scary as I thought!

I think she is such a cutie with her big boots and ballerina tutu!

Hopefully you can see that I have printed and colured her a number of times sothat I could decoupage her up a bit. Here's a close up......

I have also used a variety of dies for this card - a gorgeous Memory Box border for the flowers around her feet (I still can't belive how perfect and delicate those things come out when you run them though the Calibur!) Also the stopper is made from Spellbinders flowers, topped off with the little pink nuggets that you can get from Polka Doodles.

So.....after all my efforts, I thought I would enter this card in to a few challenges:

Make It Monday (cos I love to receive feedback from all the other lovely crafters who visit that blog!!)
Saturated Canary - Photo Inspiration (the first time I've been brave enough to enter an SC challenge!)
Bearly Mine - Anything Goes
Paper Shelter - Anything Goes
Crafters Companion - Best Friends

Thanks for stopping by today, and enjoy the rest of your Bank Holiday weekend!

Sharon x

Another sketch challenge....

Here's the second sketch challenge that I have been following this week.......

This time it's the latest offering from Sketch Saturday. For this card I have used everything from the Strawberry shortcake range. There is the lovely stamp of course and the backing papers and embellishments have all come from the Strawberry Shortcake CD Rom.

It's a very short post today as it's getting a bit late and I didn't want to miss the boat on the challenge.
So I'm entering this card for the following:

Sketch Saturday
Make it Monday
Bearly Mine - Anything Goes
Paper Shelter - Anything Goes.

Thanks for stopping by today.

Sharon x

A Little Bit Sketchy

This week I decided to make a couple of cards which followed some of the sketch challenges out there, and here is the first one......

For this card I have followed the sketch from the latest Friday Sketchers challenge, and I thought that this little stamp from Denami would be perfect for the challenge. I love these cute little chicks as they are so quirky, but also easy to colour in.....it's literally a five minute job with alcohol pens.
I have coloured them to match with my backing papers which come from a DoCrafts Forever Friends 6x6 pad called Party Time. There is actually a bear on the base layer but I had to cover him over.......how cruel!

Anyhoo I thought I would enter this card in to the following:

Make it Monday
Friday Sketch
Bearly Mine - Anything Goes
Paper Shelter - Anything Goes

Finally - a little confession to make - I have been to the cinema today to watch.......A Diary of a Wimpy Kid Dog Days. It's OK - I had my son with me for cover, but this is normally the type of film I would wait to come out on DVD and then watch covertly at home! I have to admit though....whilst not the most complex of stories (it's designed with pre teenage boys in mind after all!!) - I did laugh my head off on a number of occasions.....I think it's good to be a bit of a child sometimes!

Well it's back to adult life for me now though....dinner to sort out, house to clean - bla, bla, bla!!!

Thanks for stopping by today.

Sharon x

It's all about the words...

Joanna Sheen has a challenge this week which is called 'Totally Sentimental' where the object of the challenge is to use a sentiment as the main focal point of your card.

Now this is quite an unusual thing for me to do, but it just so happens that the Stamp Addicts Etched Flowers sets, which I was playing about with a while ago, happen to contain a number of 'flowery; quotes which, I think are just perfect for this theme.

So here is something I have created ....

For this card I stampd the quote on to vellum, using Stayzon, and edge the vellum with a green fine line pen, before mounting on to another piece of card which I had prestamped with the little star flower from the same set. I covered up my 'sticking' with some lovely flowery candy dots.

Sorry for the quality of the picture, which is paericularly rubbish - even by my standards - but hopefully you get the idea!

I would like to enter this in to the following challenges:

Joanna Sheen - Totally Sentimental
Make it Monday
Anything Goes - Make your own background
Bearly Mine - Anything Goes

Thanks for stopping by today.

Sharon x

Back to School

We're not quite there yet, but inly a couple of weeks left until the kids go back to school, and the autumn sets in. It's hard to believe when I'm sitting here in 30 degree heat, but, no sooner will they be back, and we'll be on our way to Hallowe'en, Bonfire night, and of course the big 'C' word.

No wonder my life seems to fly by so quickly!

Any, the thing that made me amble along with my little musings was that Cute Card Thursday have a 'Back to School' challenge, so I thought I would enter my last remaining 'schoolish' card for this challenge.

So here we have it. Once again I have used my gorgeous digi paper set from NitWits and teamed it with another school boy from Digi Stamp Boutique, which I have printed a number of times and decoupaged.

I also decorated the inside of the card with some of the nic nacs from the Digi set,

As usual I have coloured everything in with alcohol pens (Promarkers this time!)

So I have just one challenge to enter this particular card in to, which is

Cute Card Thursday - Back to School.

Thanks for stopping by today.

Sharon x